1.      Numerical simulation of flow and heat transfer in microchannel using nanofluids.

2.      Experimental and numerical simulation of flow and heat transfer in micro heat exchanger using nanofluids.

3.      Experimental and numerical simulation of heat transfer enhancement in shell and tube heat exchanger using nanoparticles and extended surfaces in PCM.

    a)     Books

1       Computational Methods for Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Publication of BNUT, 2009, in Persian.

2       Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications, Publication of BNUT, 2009, in Persian.

    b)     Selected ISI Journal Papers

1        Ranjbar, A.A., Famouri, M., Imani, A., (2010), A Transient Inverse Problem in Simultaneous Estimation of TDTP based on MEGA, Int. J. Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 20, No. 2, 201-207.

2        Ranjbar, A.A., Rahimi, M., Hosseini, J., (2010), Heat Transfer Enhancement  in Pulsating Flows Through Parallel Bluff Plates, J. Enhanced Heat Transfer, Vol. 17, No. 2, 169-182.

3        Ranjbar, A.A., Ezzati, M., Famouri, M., (2009), Optimization of Experimental Design for an Inverse Estimation of the Metal-Mold Heat Transfer Coefficient in the Solidification of Sn–10% Pb, J. Materials Processing Technology, Vol. 209, No. 15-16, 5611-5617.

4        Ranjbar, A.A., Sedighi, K., Farhadi, M., Pourfallah, M, (2009), Computational study of the effect of different injection angle on heavy duty diesel engine combustion, J. Thermal Science, Vol. 13, No. 3, 9-21.

5        Ranjbar, A.A., Domairry, G. and Javadein, M.S., (2009), The Influence of a Magnetic Field on Laminar Viscous Flow in a Semi-Porous Channel, Int. J. Modern Phy. B, Vol. 23, No. 20, in press.

6        Ranjbar, A.A., Mirsadeghi, M., (2008), "Inverse estimation of the Initial Temperature Profile in a Polymer Process ", Journal of Polymer Science and Engineering, Vol. 48, No. 1, 133–140.

7        Imani, A., Ranjbar, A.A., Esmkhani, M., (2006), "Simultaneous Estimation of Temperature-dependent Thermal Conductivity and Heat Capacity based on Modified Genetic Algorithm", Journal of Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering., Vol. 14, No. 7, pp. 767-783.

8        Ranjbar, A.A., (2005),"A Perturbation based Analysis to Investigate the Effects of Temperature-dependent Viscosity in Two-layer Plane Couette Flow", Journal of Heat Transfer Research, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 141-149.

9        Ranjbar, A.A., Hooman, K., (2004), "Numerical Investigation of Flow and Heat Transfer of a Liquid Metal in a Compact Heat Exchanger", Journal of Heat Transfer Research, Vol. 35, No. 3-4, pp. 229-238.

10    Ranjbar, A.A., Hooman, K., (2004), "The Hazen-Dupuit-Darcy Model to Investigate Viscous Dissipation Effects on Thermal Development of a Liquid Metal Flow  in a Porous Medium: Circular Tube with Uniform Wall Temperature ", Journal of Heat Transfer Research, Vol. 35, No. 3-4, pp. 219-228.

11    Ranjbar, A.A., Hooman, K., (2004),"Viscous Dissipation Effects on Thermally Developing Forced Convection in a Porous Medium: Circular Duct with Isothermal Wall", Journal of International Communications in Heat  and  Mass Transfer, Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 897-907.

12    Hooman, K., Ranjbar, A.A., (2004), "A Perturbation Based Analysis to Investigate Forced Convection in a Porous Saturated Tube," Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 162, pp. 411-419.

13    Hooman, K., Ranjbar, A.A., (2004),"A Perturbation Solution for Viscous Dissipative Laminar Flow in a Porous-saturated Pipe with Uniform Wall Temperature", International Journal of Transport Phenomena, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 307-313.

14    Ranjbar, A.A., Kantoori, A.A., Hooman, K., (2003), "Forced Convection in a Heterogenic Porous-Medium: Parallel Plate Channel", Journal of Heat Transfer Research, Vol. 34, No. 7-8, pp. 525-531.

15    Hooman, K., Ranjbar, A.A., (2003), "Forced Convection in a Fluid-saturated Porous-Medium Tube with Isoflux Wall", Journal of International Communications in Heat  and  Mass Transfer, Vol. 30, No. 7, pp. 1015-1026.

a)      Regional

1  "Numerical Simulation of Laminar Flow through a Hyperporous Tube with Uniform Heat Flux at Wall", Mazandaran University, (2002-2003).

2  "Exact and Numerical Solution of Liquid Metal Flow in a Porous Saturated Circular Tube with Uniform Wall Temperature", Mazandaran University, (2003-2004).

3  "Effects of Temperature-dependent viscosity variation on forced convection through a porous medium", Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, (2004-2005).

b)      National

1  "Development of an Engineering Software for the Analysis of PEM & DM Fuel Cells, Ministry of Defense, (2007-2008).

2  "CFD analysis of combustion in a DI heavy duty diesel engine, DESA, (2008-2009).